Of course, CSS was a compromise between old guard semantic "purists" (who envisioned an HTML document as being pure text with structural meaning semantically ap

Of course, CSS was a compromise between old guard semantic "purists" (who envisioned an HTML document as being pure text with structural meaning semantically applied to the content via tags, with the browser in full control of presentation) and designers, who wanted control over look and layout (the fools!). And so, CSS was created, and designers could have their silly colours and fonts. Any layout or typographic abilities were added as a neglected and poorly considered afterthought. Designers being what they are, worked out systems like tables, and the hacks in the link to get what they want out of CSS anyway. (but why would you want to centre anything? that's stupid! the original designers of CSS grumble) meanwhile, far superior systems, such as "Constraints Based CSS" were proposed, and ultimately rejected because it's stupid and irresponsible to want to control the layout of a webpage! Now it's 2014 and we have flex box as a patch over. Constraints based css would have been much better, and that's what you get in Cocoa Auto-layout now, but oh well. let's copy java and flash. what difference does it make? http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/constraints/web/ccss-uwtr.pdf http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/constraints/web/ccss-u...